Skink beats the N.Y. Heat in Drug Store

[crispini]

By Associated Press
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - Even skinks need a break from the heat. One of the white-striped critters managed to halt business for a few hours Tuesday at a normally busy drug store near Binghamton.

The skink wandered into the Eckerd Drugs store in the town of Chenango as temperatures soared into the 90s.

Store workers managed to confine the animal in an entrance area. Would-be customers were turned away while the skink enjoyed the store's cool climate.

One employee said she thought the skink was "cute."

Several workers watched its antics from a safe distance until a pest control expert managed to coax it into a cage by early evening. An employee says the removal was accomplished without upsetting the skink.

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[GOPisEvil]

1. It really is skink week!

:o

But Eckerd? :puke:

[crispini]

3. Better than CVS.... :P

[GOPisEvil]

5. Eckerd is on the NARAL shit-list.

CVS is at least more acceptable on that front. :shrug:

[crispini]

6. I did not realize that.

i actually think one bought the other, didn't they?

[GOPisEvil]

9. CVS bought Eckerd.

I guess they haven't changed the names of all of them yet.

[merh]

2. That just skinks!

[crispini]

4. Very cool! :)

[merh]

8. Anything I can do to help skink up the place!

:hi:

:silly:

[crispini]

10. It's skink week you know!

[merh]

16. I hadn't realized, so that is what all the skink has been about.

:toast: HAPPY SKINK WEEK! :toast:
Sure hope you have a big skink week! :bounce:


Here is to you & the skinks of the world! :toast:

[crispini]

18. LOL, that's awesome.

How on earth do you do the moving smileys?

[merh]

20. The marquee code -

< marquee behavior=alternate >: toast : < b > < font color="green" size="6" face="arial "> HAPPY SKINK WEEK! < /font >< /b > : toast :< /marquee >

Copy this, remove the spaces behind and in front of the brackets and the colons and you have the marquee. Just substitute your words and smilies and of course the "brackets" instead of "less than" or "greater than" symbols and it is all yours. :hi:

Consider it your Skink Week present! :toast:

[crispini]

22. Thank you!

That's so cool, I didn't even realize that was a tag. I'll have to try it out!

[merh]

23. Heck, I just learned how to center!!!

newyawker was kind enough to let me know how to center my test!

"<" center ">" to begin and "<" /center ">" to end the function.

:bounce: HAPPY SKINK WEEK! :bounce:

[In_The_Wind]

7. cool

this one's for the skink

[madinmaryland]

11. At least its not about skanks

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3734166

[billyskank]

12. Hey!

:(

[madinmaryland]

13. Oops, sorry!

[crispini]

14. LOL. Should we have a skank appreciation thread? :P

[billyskank]

15. Yay!

:woohoo:

[crispini]

17. Let's just call this the skank appreciation thread.

I have a feeling based on the recent flaminess in the Lounge that if I posted a Skank Appreciation Thread, anyone who hasn't read this one would totally throw down on it. :7

[billyskank]

19. :D

[crispini]

21. LOL!

I love it!

[In_The_Wind]

24. I believe you're correct on this one !